Qld holds fire on disability levy

QUEENSLAND Treasurer Tim Nicholls is yet to decide whether to support the idea of a Medicare-style levy to fund a national disability care scheme.

The federal government is reportedly considering an impost, that could be added to the existing 1.5 per cent Medicare levy, to fund the multi-billion dollar scheme.

Mr Nicholls said he was yet to see a formal proposal.

"I'm neither opposed or supporting it ... (but) given the propositions that have been put to us in the past by federal Labor, it changes between Monday and Friday, it changes between breakfast and lunch," he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.

"We would want to see it in writing before we made any comment on it."

He said Queensland had put more than $860 million on the table to improve disability services.